July 8th Trivia

1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.

1947 – Reports are broadcast that there was a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in which became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits.

1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

2016 – Snipers killed five police officers and injuring seven others, alongside two civilians, in Dallas late Thursday at the end of a peaceful protest against recent police shootings of African-Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota.